LN 6.5 – DB Consistency Control after uncontrolled LN closure.
As already pointed out, you can’t get around the consistency check. However, 30-60 minutes seems like an exceedingly long time. You may be able to at least shorten it. Take note of what files are being checked and how long they’re taking. For example, if it’s perweb.nsf, you could try renaming or deleting the file [...]
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| May 6, 2008 4:46 PM
Consistency Control, Lotus Notes 6.x
As already pointed out, you can’t get around the consistency check. However, 30-60 minutes seems like an exceedingly long time. You may be able to at least shorten it. Take note of what files are being checked and how long they’re taking. For example, if it’s perweb.nsf, you could try renaming or deleting the file [...]
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| May 6, 2008 4:46 PM
Consistency Control, Lotus Notes 6.x
open a green screen from a java application
If you are on V5R4 or greater you could use Retional 6.1 to create w Webfaced version of the Cobol application.
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| May 2, 2008 3:23 PM
5250 session, COBOL, Green Screen, Java, WebSphere
If you are on V5R4 or greater you could use Retional 6.1 to create w Webfaced version of the Cobol application.
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| May 2, 2008 3:23 PM
5250 session, COBOL, Green Screen, Java, WebSphere
Counting unique sub-categories within a category in a view.
Create a NotesViewEntryCollection of the docs you’re dealing with and spin through it checking for the IsCategory property of each NotesViewEntry.
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| May 2, 2008 2:58 PM
Formula Language, Lotus Notes, Lotus Notes View
Create a NotesViewEntryCollection of the docs you’re dealing with and spin through it checking for the IsCategory property of each NotesViewEntry.
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| May 2, 2008 2:58 PM
Formula Language, Lotus Notes, Lotus Notes View
Resource Reservation question
You may be able to use a new feature in Domino 7 and 8 that can expose your Free Time to Web services that may be able to be consumed by the Microsoft Exchange system. Not sure that it would work or not but check out this link. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/domino7-free-time/
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| May 2, 2008 2:50 PM
Exchange 2003, Lotus Domino Server 8.x, Lotus Notes
You may be able to use a new feature in Domino 7 and 8 that can expose your Free Time to Web services that may be able to be consumed by the Microsoft Exchange system. Not sure that it would work or not but check out this link. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/domino7-free-time/
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| May 2, 2008 2:50 PM
Exchange 2003, Lotus Domino Server 8.x, Lotus Notes
Email still forwarding after forwarding rule has been deleted Lotus Notes
Is it possible you’ve created both a rule on the server, and on the Notes client? Or possibly a “mail forward” agent is in place on the mail file? Another reason that it may not work is the fact that the information for Rules is held in fields that are attached to the “CalendarProfile” profile [...]
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| May 2, 2008 2:16 PM
Lotus Domino Server 7.x, Lotus Notes, Windows Server 2003
Is it possible you’ve created both a rule on the server, and on the Notes client? Or possibly a “mail forward” agent is in place on the mail file? Another reason that it may not work is the fact that the information for Rules is held in fields that are attached to the “CalendarProfile” profile [...]
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| May 2, 2008 2:16 PM
Lotus Domino Server 7.x, Lotus Notes, Windows Server 2003
lotus notes 7 error invalid or non existing document when trying to archive now
We have seen this error as well in Notes 6.5.5 mail files too. I have never found the exact cause, but it seems that “deleted” documents or deletion stubs are being included somehow in the collection of documents created by the archive now selection criteria. Then when the archive process trys to copy the document [...]
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| May 2, 2008 2:08 PM
Lotus error messages, Lotus Notes 7.x, Lotus Notes Domino archiving
We have seen this error as well in Notes 6.5.5 mail files too. I have never found the exact cause, but it seems that “deleted” documents or deletion stubs are being included somehow in the collection of documents created by the archive now selection criteria. Then when the archive process trys to copy the document [...]
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| May 2, 2008 2:08 PM
Lotus error messages, Lotus Notes 7.x, Lotus Notes Domino archiving
Reading a Rich Text Field
If you add a hidden computed text field to your form with the formula @Abstract(name of RTF), you will be able to extract the text from the RTF and can then display the information in a view column. You should consult the Help files to see the options associated with the function, and should check [...]
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| May 1, 2008 2:26 PM
Domino 6.5, Formula Language, Lotus Notes, XHTML
If you add a hidden computed text field to your form with the formula @Abstract(name of RTF), you will be able to extract the text from the RTF and can then display the information in a view column. You should consult the Help files to see the options associated with the function, and should check [...]
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| May 1, 2008 2:26 PM
Domino 6.5, Formula Language, Lotus Notes, XHTML
Changing the default DTD
Hello From what I found some time ago: http://www.bofrede.com/en/articles/tips-doctype-fix It’s a server configuration and you wouldn’t have the exact dtd your request (but rather 2 = <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd”>) Mathieu
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| April 30, 2008 1:38 PM
Domino 6.5, Domino and HTML, DTD, Lotus Notes, Lotus Web development, XHTML
Hello From what I found some time ago: http://www.bofrede.com/en/articles/tips-doctype-fix It’s a server configuration and you wouldn’t have the exact dtd your request (but rather 2 = <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd”>) Mathieu
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| April 30, 2008 1:38 PM
Domino 6.5, Domino and HTML, DTD, Lotus Notes, Lotus Web development, XHTML
Creating a scheduled agent to change status of Lotus Notes documents after three months
JellyBean: Aguirard had a better solution on a very similar question a while ago. <a href=”http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-to-change-the-status-of-the-documents-by-using-scheduled-agent/”>Link</a>. There are a few ways to do this. the easiest is probably using a view that contains the documents you want to change the status of. you view selection criteria would look something like this: <b>Select Form = “Your_Form_Name” [...]
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| April 29, 2008 2:08 PM
Lotus Agents, Lotus development
JellyBean: Aguirard had a better solution on a very similar question a while ago. <a href=”http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-to-change-the-status-of-the-documents-by-using-scheduled-agent/”>Link</a>. There are a few ways to do this. the easiest is probably using a view that contains the documents you want to change the status of. you view selection criteria would look something like this: <b>Select Form = “Your_Form_Name” [...]
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| April 29, 2008 2:08 PM
Lotus Agents, Lotus development
Editing fields in a view
What I used was the Todo list view in the standard mail file R6+ Event Inviewedit Lookup the designer help on caretnoteid. It’s used to get a handle on the doc you want to edit in the view
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| April 28, 2008 2:01 PM
Lotus Notes, Lotus Notes View
What I used was the Todo list view in the standard mail file R6+ Event Inviewedit Lookup the designer help on caretnoteid. It’s used to get a handle on the doc you want to edit in the view
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| April 28, 2008 2:01 PM
Lotus Notes, Lotus Notes View
Lotus Notes database documents inexplicably disappearing
Documents don’t really disappear from dB’s so something else is happening. I’ve had this issue a few times. I’d think about removing the ability of anyone to delete, even the Local Servers, from the ACL. If they still disappear after this then maybe something else if changing them. Are there any agents running over them, [...]
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| April 28, 2008 1:45 PM
Lotus Notes Database
Documents don’t really disappear from dB’s so something else is happening. I’ve had this issue a few times. I’d think about removing the ability of anyone to delete, even the Local Servers, from the ACL. If they still disappear after this then maybe something else if changing them. Are there any agents running over them, [...]
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| April 28, 2008 1:45 PM
Lotus Notes Database
What is the best way to retrieve the creation date of a Lotus Notes database?
Dim session As New NotesSession Dim db As NotesDatabase Dim createDate As Variant Set db = session.CurrentDatabase createDate = db.Created Dim workspace As New NotesUIWorkspace Dim uidoc As NotesUIDocument Set uidoc = workspace.CurrentDocument %Rem DatabaseCreatedDate is a text field on your form or page %End REM Set uidoc.fieldsettext(DatabaseCreatedDate;cstr(createddate)) Call uidoc.refresh
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| April 28, 2008 1:23 PM
Lotus Notes Database, Lotus Web development
Dim session As New NotesSession Dim db As NotesDatabase Dim createDate As Variant Set db = session.CurrentDatabase createDate = db.Created Dim workspace As New NotesUIWorkspace Dim uidoc As NotesUIDocument Set uidoc = workspace.CurrentDocument %Rem DatabaseCreatedDate is a text field on your form or page %End REM Set uidoc.fieldsettext(DatabaseCreatedDate;cstr(createddate)) Call uidoc.refresh
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| April 28, 2008 1:23 PM
Lotus Notes Database, Lotus Web development
Using Formula language to read an environment value
You cannot get an environmental variable from a selection criteria. Please define you business requirement so we can help you find a viable solution. From what I can tell, you are not using environmental variables for their intended purpose.
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| April 25, 2008 1:27 PM
Formula Language, Lotus Notes
You cannot get an environmental variable from a selection criteria. Please define you business requirement so we can help you find a viable solution. From what I can tell, you are not using environmental variables for their intended purpose.
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| April 25, 2008 1:27 PM
Formula Language, Lotus Notes
Can older custom Lotus Notes databases run in new versions without agent issues?
Certainly. When we upgraded to R7, we had no issues at all. Notes is usually very good about backward compatibility. Is there something specific you’re concerned about or experiencing problems with?
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| April 25, 2008 1:23 PM
Lotus Agents, Lotus Notes 6.x, Lotus Notes 7.x, Lotus Notes Database
Certainly. When we upgraded to R7, we had no issues at all. Notes is usually very good about backward compatibility. Is there something specific you’re concerned about or experiencing problems with?
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| April 25, 2008 1:23 PM
Lotus Agents, Lotus Notes 6.x, Lotus Notes 7.x, Lotus Notes Database
UImemodocument
Can the user access the mail file without problems from another desktop? If so, it’s an issue with the local client, such as a corrupt cache. If, after replacing design to R7, you execute the action “Upgrade folder design” do you still have the problem?
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| April 25, 2008 1:21 PM
Lotus error messages, Lotus Notes 7.x, Mail Template
Can the user access the mail file without problems from another desktop? If so, it’s an issue with the local client, such as a corrupt cache. If, after replacing design to R7, you execute the action “Upgrade folder design” do you still have the problem?
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| April 25, 2008 1:21 PM
Lotus error messages, Lotus Notes 7.x, Mail Template
Sharing Lotus Notes Personal Address Books
To allow sharing of a personal address book: <li>1- Start with an ID that has rights to create a database on the Domino Server or ask that the CEO be granted temporary rights to create a database on the server, 2- Grant assistant access rights in the ACL of the pnab (personal name & address [...]
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| April 24, 2008 6:15 PM
Lotus Address Book, Names.nsf
To allow sharing of a personal address book: <li>1- Start with an ID that has rights to create a database on the Domino Server or ask that the CEO be granted temporary rights to create a database on the server, 2- Grant assistant access rights in the ACL of the pnab (personal name & address [...]
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| April 24, 2008 6:15 PM
Lotus Address Book, Names.nsf
How to print a document with multiple pages of Lotus Form with same fixed heading repeat on every page.
The form properties has a header section in which you can code with formula or text. From Notes 6 Help. To create a print header and footer You can define a header and footer that will print on all documents created with that form. Headers and footers are not supported for Web applications. 1. On [...]
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| April 24, 2008 2:33 PM
Domino Designer, Lotus Forms, Lotus Notes 6.x
The form properties has a header section in which you can code with formula or text. From Notes 6 Help. To create a print header and footer You can define a header and footer that will print on all documents created with that form. Headers and footers are not supported for Web applications. 1. On [...]
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| April 24, 2008 2:33 PM
Domino Designer, Lotus Forms, Lotus Notes 6.x
Check the Rich Text Fields in Lotus Notes Database
Using Formula language compare your text field value to the attachment name @IF(@Uppercase(YOUR_TEXT_FIELD_NAME) != @UPPERCASE(@AttachmentNames);@FALSE;@TRUE)
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| April 24, 2008 1:19 PM
Domino 6, Lotus Notes
Using Formula language compare your text field value to the attachment name @IF(@Uppercase(YOUR_TEXT_FIELD_NAME) != @UPPERCASE(@AttachmentNames);@FALSE;@TRUE)
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| April 24, 2008 1:19 PM
Domino 6, Lotus Notes
Creating a new user – missing NSF file
If you created the user via the Domino Administrator and chose to have the mail file created in the background then there should be an entry in the ADMIN4.nsf database for that user name. View Administration Requests from the Server > Analysis tab and verify that the Create Mailfile transaction was processed. If not, then [...]
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| April 23, 2008 2:00 PM
Lotus Domino Server 7.x, Lotus Notes 7.x
If you created the user via the Domino Administrator and chose to have the mail file created in the background then there should be an entry in the ADMIN4.nsf database for that user name. View Administration Requests from the Server > Analysis tab and verify that the Create Mailfile transaction was processed. If not, then [...]
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| April 23, 2008 2:00 PM
Lotus Domino Server 7.x, Lotus Notes 7.x
Cannot respond to messages in iNotes/DWA
We have the same error on Vista and Firefox… but working with IE. anyone has any tips?
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| April 23, 2008 1:27 PM
Domino Web Access (iNotes), firefox, iNotes, Lotus error messages
We have the same error on Vista and Firefox… but working with IE. anyone has any tips?
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| April 23, 2008 1:27 PM
Domino Web Access (iNotes), firefox, iNotes, Lotus error messages
